I've been busy converting my grandfather's old Betamax tapes to DVD. We're using his Windows laptop, and a Pinnacle LYNX card to import the video (it renders PAL MPEG-2 video). Right now we're not editing anything, only digitizing everything to MPEG, later I'll import all to iMovie and generate DVDs with all that stuff :).
MM On Aug 9, 7:26 am, Cameron MacLeod <raing...@mac.com> wrote: > I've just done the same thing with a bunch of old VCR tapes and 8MM > analog camcorder tapes. For the conversion I used my 5-year old Sony > DV camcorder (HC65) with analog-digital conversion - perhaps you have > one already kicking around or can borrow one. It is really very > simple. > > I hooked the VCR or old Camcorder's video and audio out signals to the > input of the DV camcorder (on mine it is a special cable with several > input options including S-video). Then I attached the DV camcorder to > the mac with firewire, set the AV Conversion option in the camera's > menu system. Then PLAY on the VCR, and Capture in either iMovie or > Final Cut Express. After capture I convert the DV capture files to > Quicktime to save a ton of hard disk space and now the files are > available for editing as easily any other media file. > > Done. > > I am not sure many later non-DV tape camcorders (flash or AVCD) have > this ability, but I know the HDV camcorders from Canon still seem to > have it. > > Cheers --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
